Germany: Woman imprisoned for killing 2 newborn babies

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Berlin: A German court has convicted a woman of manslaughter for killing two of her newborn babies, whose bodies she kept in the freezer.

News agency dpa reports that the state court in Halle sentenced the 46-year-old defendant today to nine-and-a-half years in prison. She had admitted secretly giving birth to a girl in 2004 and a boy in 2008 and killing them.